Radeon R5 Graphics vs HD 8280E

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1182not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.07no data
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameKalindiSpectre SL
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date23 April 2013 (11 years ago)17 September 2014 (10 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores128256
Core clock speed450 MHz497 MHz
Boost clock speedno data720 MHz
Number of transistors1,178 million2,410 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate3.6007.952
Floating-point processing power0.1152 TFLOPS0.2545 TFLOPS
ROPs44
TMUs816

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfaceIGPIGP
Widthno dataIGP

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeSystem SharedSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountSystem SharedSystem Shared
Memory bus widthSystem SharedSystem Shared
Memory clock speedSystem SharedSystem Shared
Shared memory+no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.36.0
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 April 2013 17 September 2014

R5 Graphics has an age advantage of 1 year.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8280E and Radeon R5 Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 8280E is a notebook card while Radeon R5 Graphics is a desktop one.


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